The Office: A Benihana Christmas, 3.10-11
Thursday, December 14th, 2006 | 385 comments
W: Jennifer Celotta, D: Harold Ramis
Summary (NBC): Michael sends out an inappropriate photoshopped Christmas card and gets his heart broken for the holidays by girlfriend Carol. Andy takes Michael out drinking, with Dwight and Jim, while tensions on the party planning committee between Angela, Pam and Karen cause rival parties to form. Hour-long episode.
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A Benihana Christmas quotes
Dwight: Don’t worry, she’s dead … oh wait… he’s dead.
Dwight: I accidentally ran over it. It’s a Christmas miracle!
Dwight: Do we have any cayenne pepper in the kitchen?
Dwight: And circle gets the square.
Dwight: So can you watch this? I’m gonna get my carving knife out of the trunk.
Dwight: Once I brought in a duck to prepare for lunch and people got upset. Apparently they got attached to the duck and didn’t want to see it killed.
Dwight: He was already dead, and we Schrutes use every part of the goose. The meat has a delicious smoky rich flavor. Plus, you can use the molten goose grease and save it in the refrigerator, thus saving you a trip to the store for a can of expensive goose grease.
Jim: Wow. Win-win.
Dwight: Exactly, thank you, Jim.
Phyllis: I like goose. If it’s already dead, is it so crazy if we eat it?
Creed: That’s crazy. It’s crazy.
Toby: Clean it in your car.
Pam: I would like it off my desk.
Dwight: Oh, Pam. Take a chill pill.
Michael: Hey! I would like a nice slice of Christmas Pam. Side of candy Pams. And perhaps some Pam chops. With mint …
Pam: Can I help you Michael?
Michael: I’m looking for the toy drive box.
Pam: It’s behind you.
Michael: Okay … well, I need to put this bike in there. I hope it’ll fit, with all these little knickknacks …
Jim: Is that your old bike, Michael?
Michael: This is going to be the best Christmas ever. My girlfriend Carol is coming to our party tonight, and I have a little surprise for her. (Singing) I’ve got two tickets to paradise! Pack your bags, we’re leaving day-after-tomorrow! Um, taking her to Sandals, Jamaica, all-inclusive. All-inclusive. You know what that means. Right? Yeah. (Leers)
Jim: Oh, I think you’re supposed to put a toy in the box, Creed.
Michael: A Christmas Carol.
Michael: You’re about five hours early to the party. Oh, you’re such a blonde.
Michael: This is my girlfriend, Carol. This is just the front of her.
Michael: Ski-son’s Greetings.
Carol: This is so weird.
Jim: It’s a bold move to Photoshop yourself into a picture with your girlfriend and her kids on a ski trip with their real father. But then again, Michael’s a bold guy. Is bold the right word?
Michael: You need to think this through in Jamaica’s largest freshwater pool.
Michael: You walk out that door, and it is over.
Carol: I know.
Jim (reading Dwight’s file): “Last year, my boss, Michael Scott, took a day off, ‘cuz he said he had pneumonia, but really, he was leaving early to go to magic camp.”
Pam: You get to decide what his top secret mission is. Sorry I didn’t wrap it.
Jim: I feel like there’s a chance for me to start over. And if I fall back into the same kind of things I used to do, then … what am I doing?
Michael: I’d like everybody’s attention. Christmas is canceled.
Michael: Jim, take New Year’s away from Stanley.
Michael: Carol and I split up. Amicably.
Jim: Will they still air ‘Rudolph.’
Michael: It hurts my heart. It hurts my stomach. It hurts my arms.
Dwight: It appears we’re one bathrobe short.
Michael: Take it from Toby.
Angela: Phyllis, I need you to pick up green streamers at lunch.
Phyllis: I thought you said green was whorish.
Angela: No, orange is whorish.
Karen: Uh, so I had a couple of ideas to make the Stamford people feel more at home. Each year we have a Christmas raffle …
Angela: It would never work here.
Karen: Ok … um, another idea was karaoke …
Angela: No.
Karen: A Christmas drinking game …
Meredith: Yes.
Angela: God help you.
Karen: What?
Angela: These are all terrible ideas … and none of them are on the theme of “A Nutcracker Christmas.” I think you should leave.
Karen (laughing tentatively): You’re kidding.
Angela: You tried this out, and it’s clearly not for you. It’s time to go.
Dwight: Why don’t you just buy the whole song?
Michael: I don’t need to buy it, I just want to taste it.
Karen: Does anyone ever stand up to Angela?
Pam: I think one of her cats did once. She came in with scratches all over her face.
Pam: If you’re interested in the way more fun party, all the info can be found here on our more brightly colored flyer.
Kevin: I didn’t see where it was.
Jim: Could you please keep it down? I’m in session. I’ve determined this committee’s valid.
Dwight: Permission to join the Validity Committee.
Jim: Permission denied.
Andy: I can’t concentrate when I know you’re in pain, man.
Michael: C’mon, we’re going to Asian Hooters.
Ryan: I’m not feeling so well. I’ve got a ton of work to do here. MSG allergy, peanut allergy, I just ate there last night.
Jim: Wow, thanks for taking all the excuses, dude.
Ryan: Doctor appointment, car trouble, plantar warts, granddad fought in World War II. Use your head, man. I keep mine in here. Look alive, Halpert. Welcome back.
Michael: Bros before hos.
Michael: And then … and then suddenly she’s not yo’ ho no mo’.
Dwight: How can I be there for Michael if I’m here for Michael.
Angela: Pam, don’t tell her what to do! Phyllis.
Kevin: I think I’ll go to Angela’s party, because that’s the party I know.
Ryan: I miss the days when there was only one party I didn’t want to go to.
Angela: Your paychecks will be arriving as scheduled on Friday. And they will be in the correct amount that they are normally in.
Angela: Meredith, if you don’t come to my party, you will be very, very sorry.
Kevin: I hear Angela’s party will have double-fudge brownies. It will also have Angela.
Angela: Brownies. Cupcakes.
Kevin: Don’t push it.
Karen: Are we taking this too far? You know what, I don’t think we’re taking this far enough. (Looking at Pam) What?
Pam: I got goosebumps.
Angela: I don’t back down. My sister and I used to be best friends, and we haven’t talked in 16 years. Over some disagreement I don’t even remember. So … yeah. I’m pretty good.
Everybody: Darryl! Darryl! Darryl!
Cindy: Is he the hot one or the giant baby?
Angela: I don’t walk into your house and steal your Hello Kitty backpack.
Pam: In the name of Nutcracker Christmas.
Michael: My little gal over there. Babe-alectable.
Michael: You know how all waitresses look alike.
Michael: Are you going to tell me that Stevie Wonder doesn’t love his wife just because he’s not sure what she looks like?
Michael: Is she in the fridge? Where is she hiding?
Dwight: Monkey, this is Possum. Do you copy?
Angela: Copy, Possum. What’s your twenty?
Cindy: No … I have school.
Michael: I can’t believe I gave her my bike!
Jim: Yeah.
Jim: You just had a rebound.
Michael: A rebound.
Jim: Yeah. Which, don’t get me wrong, can be a really fun distraction, but, when it’s over, you’re left thinking about the girl you really like, the one that broke your heart.
Michael: Domo arigato, Mr. Scott-o.
Michael: It’s all-inclusive.
Oscar: Too soon.
Dwight (reading text message): “You have been compromised. Abort mission. Destroy phone.”
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The absolute best part of this series ever was when Michael marked the Benihana girl. I died!
the song that michael played was goodbye my lover by james blunt!
I want to have a poster of Kelly Kapoor @ ~23:25. Nice curves.
I don’t care what ANYONE says, the funniest Michael-Moment of the episode (and possibly Office history) was him marking the Benihana girl. I doubled over and laughed–and not just regular laughing, but the silent-guffawing type. That was genius!
And, “Stevie Wonder is married. Are you going to tell me that Stevie Wonder doesn’t love his wife, just because he isn’t sure what she looks like?”
It is goodbye my lover by james blunt.
The song Michael is listening to after Carol breaks up with him is James Blunt but I’m not exactly sure which one
whats the name of the song that michaeL sings aLong to in his office to get over his breakup with caroL?? thank uuuuu in advance! haha
I think that scene between Michael and Jim on the couch talking about marking the waitress’ arm and the rebound is one of the very best Office scenes ever! Some of the dialog from the scene is above in favorite quotes or you can watch the scene on YouTube.
It’s named: rebound pt 1
Just wondering if anyone has the dialogue with Michael talking about marking the waitress’s arm?
Did anyone notice that the two Japanese girls that Michael and Andy bring to the office appear NOT to be the same waitress girls that they show at Benihanas? When the two girls are talking at the restaurant the one girl clearly has streaked dyed hair…
I think that it is obvious to Jim that Pam broke up with Roy because of what happened between them. Yes, he told her twice that he loved her, but it was at the worst possible time for her, and he didn’t give her any time to really think about it and figure out how she felt. In real life, I don’t think that any good person would just break up their engagement on the spur of the moment, so Jim’s expectations were kind of unrealistic.
It seems like his wounded pride has been directing all his actions where Pam is concerned. That’s why he keeps rebuffing her. Deep down, maybe he wants her to feel the same hurt he’s been carrying around. It dawned on him that Karen is only a rebound, and when he noticed Pam and Roy together, maybe he started to realize that she may not wait much longer for him to relent. There’s enough hurt between the two of them now, that there will probably need to be a fight or some kind of dramatic confession before things get worked out.
Jim is a good dude but he has some rough edges. Like a lot of people we know and care for in real life. That’s one of the things that is great about the show, it is not like the typical sitcom with one-dimensional characters.
Jim is very nice with Michael (like in the karaoke scene in E-mail S.), and he’s a good friend with Kev and a lot of people in the office. But yeah, he was rude with Katie.
Kitty Kat,
yes, jim is a sweetheart. but only to pam. i don’t recall a time when he was a sweetheart to anyone else. pam is a sweetheart is a sweetheart to EVERYONE.
Dear jack m.fan’
definitely disagreed w/everything you said! Jim is a sweetheart.He has a great sense of humor!
mhm, this episode was FUNNN-EEEE
am i the only one who thinks that jim is being a complete asshole right now? i mean he practically told michael that his relationship with karen doesn’t mean anything since he’s still hung over about pam (which, after so many months, you’d really think he’d move on).
and i’ve noticed that he’s never really been kind to anyone else except for pam. pam is downright kind to everyone (for example: pam is really nice to angela, which i find rather odd).
also, ive just begun to realize that jim has always been cruel. like when he dumped katie, he didn’t exactly treat her like a pot of gold. and when he complained to toby about pam planning her wedding in the office. that wasn’t a very kind thing to do either.
i dunno. i hope somewhere down the road, the writers make jim realize that he’s an asshole and he doesn’t deserve karen or pam.
Ryan already broke up with Kelly once, and Kelly didn’t take it that badly. Ryan didn’t seem to mind that they got back together, either.
In that last deleted scene with them you saw it again. Ryan could have walked away, but he got in the dumpster with her. That says something.
If you really want to break up with someone, you do it.
Ryan and Kelly are no different. Ryan really doesn’t have any excuses anymore- except that he actually wants to be with her. He can’t help himself.
I don’t think he’d ever willingly talk about it, he probably doesn’t even try to think about it.
Ireally don’t think that Ryan is that into Kelly,based on his behaviors.I think he feels trapped in the relationship,and probably hasn’t broken up w/her because number 1-they work in the same office together-that would make things way awkward and 2 because he’s how she would react.She would totally freak out and he knows it.
I don’t think that it was just because Ryan was drunk. Because if he wanted to break up with Kelly, he would. He puts up with a lot of stuff for her, and I think he really enjoys her company.
Like the part where she puts the little candy cane on his nose? I “awed” out loud, haha.